(AP) A McAdoo man against whom former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin once took a restraining order allegedly swung a stick at McAdoo Mayor Stephan Holly following an argument about snow removal on Wednesday.

Shawn R. Christy, 25, of 23 Rear S. Harrison St., faces four felony counts of aggravated assault and two misdemeanors for simple assault after swinging a "large" stick at Holly after 8 a.m., police said.Christy was taken to jail Wednesday after failing to post $50,000 bail set by Magisterial District Judge Anthony Kilker, Shenandoah, during his preliminary arraignment.Police said they were summoned to the borough building, 23 N. Hancock St., at 8:18 a.m. for an assault complaint, a day after the Blizzard of 2017 touched down.Holly told them Christy approached him on the borough property and registered a complaint about the status of an alley. A verbal conflict ensued, police wrote, and Christy swung a stick at Holly's head twice as Holly exited his vehicle.The stick was about 4 feet long and 2 inches in diameter, court papers state, and Christy fled the area before police arrived.Christy's father, Craig, said in an interview his son went to the borough building to ask when road crews would remove snow from the alley where they live just east of Harrison Street.Shawn Christy sustained a cut lip and bruises on his neck, according to Craig Christy, who wonders why the mayor wasn't charged. Craig Christy also wondered if police obtained and watched video from any cameras at the borough building where the incident occurred.Holly said he would not comment because the incident is being investigated.After the incident, the family called an ambulance for Shawn Christy but instead two officers arrived, Craig Christy said, and they did not ask Shawn Christy to accompany them back to the police station then.Hours later, the police took his son into custody after posting backup officers in the neighborhood, Craig Christy said.The Christy family took video of the arrest and the earlier visit by police, he said.McAdoo patrolman Frederick Lahovski said Friday that in the aftermath of the alleged incident, police attempted to contact Christy and were "confronted in an adversarial manner."After attempting to make contact, police obtained an arrest warrant and used Schuylkill County's alert system to advise residents to remain inside homes while police responded, Lahovski said.State police at Frackville and officers from Rush and Kline townships assisted, Lahovski said. Borough firefighters and streets department personnel from Kline Township and McAdoo also assisted.He said the operation blended a "crisis intervention plan" with a law enforcement operation."And it worked with success," Lahovski said. "It took an hour to formulate and an hour to implement."Christy was "apprehended without further incident and undue disruption," Lahovski said.He was taken to a local emergency room for a precautionary examination and then for arraignment. He was later jailed at Schuylkill County Prison in lieu of $25,000 straight bail, Lahovski said.In 2010, when Palin was governor of Alaska, she obtained a restraining order against Shawn Christy after claiming that he harassed her and a friend.Christy was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to harassing Palin's attorneys by telephone, and he served two years in federal prison for violating his probation by leaving a halfway house.In a separate incident in September 2015, Christy pleaded guilty to two summary counts of harassment for offenses in June 2015 at McCann School of Business, where law enforcement said he harassed a teacher and administrator. He violated his parole during that incident.